Post * OoXBR — Curious Curator

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TIL that "In God We Trust" was not the US's national motto, nor was it present in the pledge or all currency until the 1950s. It was added largely as opposition to atheistic beliefs in the USSR during the cold war.

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YKEA TIL: Two women bet a Russian man that he couldn’t have sex with both of them for 12 hours straight. He won the bet and then died from a heart attack immediately after.

6jw7 TIL that the only reason that the United States has the same Stop Sign design as the rest of the world is because the UN adopted the USA standard. The US never signed the UN convention that made it standard.

8aPOP TIL the 5th of October to the 14th of October of 1582 never happened because the Gregorian Calendar skipped those days to compensate for yearly drift from the Julian calendar

XEm5P TIL after sensing a strong rise in Jewish prejudice, Einstein fled Germany a month before Hitler rose to power, avoiding the Holocaust. After reading what ended up happening, Einstein never set foot in Germany again and died in the US in 1955.

6EPeY TIL that Jay Leno had nowhere to live when he first got to LA and would hide in the closets at open houses until the realtor left; allowing him to illegally have a place to stay for up to 3 days sometimes.